About the Role
Responsible for developing sales partners in the Japanese market for the cross-border e-commerce import business of China's No. 1 trend e-commerce platform, and accountable for recruitment results within the assigned categories.
Responsibilities
- Formulate and execute recruitment plans and goals for assigned categories based on platform growth strategy and market trends (categories include shoes, apparel, bags, accessories, watches, etc.).
- Develop recruitment channels, discover potential business partners, and build/maintain good customer relationships. Actively utilize diverse channels and conduct recruitment activities, including direct visits to companies.
- Manage the entire recruitment project process, including client negotiation, business negotiation, contract signing, and initial merchant incubation support.
- Explore new business growth opportunities to expand the platform's product supply and competitive advantage, leveraging cross-category sales capabilities.
Requirements
- Possess a university degree or higher.
- Prefer candidates with work experience in Japan.
- Possess over 5 years of industry experience in trend categories (shoes, apparel, bags, watches, accessories, etc.) and a deep understanding of merchant distribution in Japan.
- Be familiar with Japanese agents or trading companies for local or international brands.
- Have over 3 years of practical experience in merchant recruitment and supply chain development, with the ability to proactively discover potential merchants in assigned categories.
- Possess the ability to build and maintain a network of cooperation with Japanese merchants.
- Experience in successful partnerships with Japanese merchants or recruitment/operation experience on e-commerce platforms is a plus.
- Possess excellent negotiation and persuasion skills.
- Possess fluent bilingual communication and writing skills in Chinese and Japanese, enabling independent business negotiation with Japanese merchants and resolution of cross-cultural communication challenges during collaboration.
Skills
- Sales partner development
- Recruitment planning and execution
- Channel development
- Business partner discovery
- Customer relationship management
- Project management
- Client negotiation
- Business negotiation
- Contract signing
- Merchant incubation
- Sales expansion
- Business opportunity exploration
- Supply chain development
- Negotiation skills
- Persuasion skills
- Bilingual communication (Chinese/Japanese)
- Cross-cultural communication
Location
- Tokyo, Japan
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years in trend categories
- 3+ years in merchant recruitment and supply chain development
Education Level
- University degree or higher
About the Company
- China's No. 1 trend e-commerce platform
